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04/24/2003 Entry: "Jesus is Lord! (What, even of my bank account?)"

Rachel has a fine piece headed Our God reigns but not in Economics, including this great little story:

In the Middle Ages a monk from Germany made a pilgrimage to Rome. There he bought a silver chalice to take back to his village church. On the way home he fell in with a trade caravan, and one night got talking to a couple of the merchants. In the course of the conversation he showed the two merchants his chalice, and told them how much he had paid for it.

The merchants congratulated him on his purchase. He had, they said, been very fortunate. The chalice was worth much more than the amount he had paid. They were tickled by the fact that an inexperienced monk had been cleverer than they had. Although they were merchants they had not had such a good stroke of luck on their trip.

The monk listened carefully to what they had to say. The following day he got up and started out, but not for his home town. He went back to Rome. There he searched for the seller of the chalice in order to pay him a just price.